Earth becoming a disease hot spot : The warming earth is making us sick. Rising temperatures, frequent floods and prolonged droughts are ideal conditions for infectious diseases to spread. "Global warming is fuelling epidemics in areas which are unprepared. We're seeing the emergence of new diseases around the world. Old diseases are also coming back with a vengeance,"
Climate change has dramatically changing infection trends.

The United States's US$700 billion (RM2.5 trillion) bailout package does not seem to have stemmed the crisis.

The danger of the US economy going into a tailspin and dragging along the rest of the world is real.

It is important to bear in mind that Japan and China have invested heavily in US Treasury bonds and bills. Japan holds US$590 billion in US Treasury instruments, while China holds US$510 billion. This is due largely to their huge trade surplus with the US.

Indeed, if the US fails to recover quickly from its credit crunch, it is predicted that its economy will go into a deep and long recession, which will have disastrous consequences for exports from Asian countries. This will impact adversely on our growth rates and the poorer and more vulnerable sections of our society will suffer a great deal.

This is why the Asean-plus-3 economies, many of which have extensive trade ties with the US, will have to come up with both short- and long-term strategies to cushion us against the consequences of a prolonged US recession.

Becoming less dependent on the US economy and encouraging more trade and investment within the Asean-plus-3 region is one of the important strategies that should be pursued.

It is true that this trend has been getting stronger in the last 10 years. However, much more can be done to generate endogenous growth within the region, especially through greater emphasis on scientific research in agricultural and industrial development.

Collaborative efforts in these areas could be one of the foci of the proposed Asean-plus-3 finance ministers meeting. The meeting could also explore ways and means of maintaining exchange rate stability, curtailing short-term debts, curbing inflation, ensuring prudent budgets and reinforcing effective banking systems in the face of the global financial crisis.

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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion

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Repentance (At Taubah)

We can never be perfect since even prophets have at times made mistakes. Repentance means to abandon one's rebelliousness and arrogance before God and to stop deliberately disregarding His commandments without feeling any shame. Repentance also means to humbly hope for the mercy of God and to fear His judgment while doing the best one can to fulfill divine wishes within the limits of one's human weaknesses.